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Under the New President. Abruptly, the scene shifts from the Golden Gate to the hills of Vermont. Reporters in automobiles rushing over country roads; a knock at the door of a white farmhouse in the little hamlet of Plymouth; oil lamps lit, dispelling the darkness; telegrams read by their glow; a brief statement of mourning; an oath of office taken at dawn and the next chapter is inaugurated...
...have decided to institute a movement to cast off the white man's God and the white man's civilization. When theatre crowds are bustling along the noisy streets of Buffalo and Montreal, the forests will look upon familiar scenes from the past. While sacred fires shed an eery glow upon the pines, red men will dance as of old, with mystic rite and stately tread, chanting their hymns to the Great Spirit...
Indeed, the glow of optimism that pervades the Hanover student-body amounts to over-confidence. Coach Hawley and his assistants do not, however, share this over-confidence. They know, as any clear-headed observer can not help knowing, that the Dartmouth team, potentially powerful though it is, is still untried. A 7 to 6 battle such as Yale had with Georgia does a team more good than a half dozen runaway contests. Dartmouth's scoring machine may fall flat when it meets a stubborn defense for the first time this season...
...beam of light shoots from a projector. It seeks out a mouse in its cage. The mouse blinks, surprised, into the glow. A switch is turned. Terrible energy flies along the beam. The mouse jumps into the air, quivers, is dead. So, in the future, Prof. Grindell-film such prophetic visions-the death ray will sweep whole armies into oblivion, whole cities into bleak, smoldering ruins, explode bombs in midair, blow up ammunition dumps from great distances; in a word, make existence for those who do not possess its mysterious secret impossible, and, so he says...
Zane Grey is a good writer. His immense popularity should not dim that fact. His descriptive passages sometimes glow with beauty and imagination. He is one of the few novelists who appeals consistently to the Average American. His characters are heroic, they are unreal, they catch and hold the imagination. It is probably this last fact, and the fact that he writes so much, that keeps him from being a "critic's" writer. But there are few living authors who know the out-of-doors so well, and who can write of it so vividly...